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The Glory of the Lord, a Theological Aesthetics VII: Theology: The New Covenant is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this final volume of his great work, von Balthasar reflects on the New Testament vision of God's revelation of his glory in Christ. This divine 'appearing' is grounded in the self-emptying of the eternal logos in the incarnation, cross, and descent into hell. Christ is the man who represents God and is also God; He is a symbol of the world and is also the world. He dies, but in dying rises...

completely the world that is to be saved, it presupposes the ‘cosmological’ status of Christ as the archetypal image standing over against the whole creation (Jn 1:1–3; Heb 1:3; Col 1:15ff.; Eph 1:10). It is not as though the soteriology had taken hold of an originally cosmological speculation about the ‘image’ in a merely external manner, in order to give it a different meaning through violent interpolations and thus make it its own; rather, the whole εἰκών-cosmology is brought to a transcendent
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